Is Levi Bellfield The Real Chillenden Murderer?

Maidstone man Michael Stone has been convicted twice of the 1996
Chillenden Murders, and is currently languishing in Full Sutton High
Security Prison where he will soon begin his twelfth year of
incarceration. Stone was a career criminal, a man with an appalling
record including two convictions for serious violence, and as a drug
user and dealer to boot he is not the kind to elicit much sympathy.
But aside from the ludicrous “evidence” against him - a solitary
confession he is alleged to have shouted through a prison wall to
another inmate in the isolation unit - there are other considerations
which lead those who have studied this case to believe he is not the
man responsible for the death of Dr Lin Russell and her youngest
daughter.

Although Stone had some knowledge of martial arts and was not the
type of man most people would invite into their homes, he had no history
of violence against women and did not really have the physique or
presence that would have enabled him to dominate an intelligent,
educated woman like Dr Russell who would surely have fought like a
tigress to defend herself and her two daughters if she believed he
intended to rape them or worse. At that time, Stone’s criminal
activity was related purely to financial gain. As far as he carried
weapons they were for his own protection against fellow
predators. He was out to make a quick buck with minimum risk. Robbing
a woman on a back country lane who was on the way home from a school
swimming gala does not fit into that category, nor does the treatment
meted out to the victims.

The most likely scenario for this horrific crime is that the
perpetrator or perpetrators set out to commit a murder just for the
fun of it, and there is now a far better suspect for the Chillenden
Murders than Stone ever was.

In February last year, Levi Bellfield was convicted of the murders of
two students in South London. Marsha MacDonnell and Amelie Delagrange
were followed from their buses and battered to death. In court it was
suggested that Miss Delagrange had rejected his advances, but there
was no rape, nor sexual assault of either victim, and Bellfield had
attacked at least one other young girl in a similar fashion, and had
also run down schoolgirl Kate Sheedy and then reversed over her.
Again, there was no suggestion of a sexual motive, it was simply an
act of pure and totally gratuitous evil.

This is the word that best describes Bellfield, a truly evil man, but
there is more. He had not only worked as a night club bouncer but knew Kent reasonably well. Physically formidable, he
is the type of man who surely could dominate a woman, her two
daughters and the family dog - which was also killed.

Bellfield has also been named as the prime suspect in the murder of
thirteen year old Amanda Dowler who disappeared in March 2002, and
whose remains were found in woodland six months later.